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(1 - 46) of 46 OFCS Rating: 78% Fresh Page   1   "Prepare yourself for a sledgehammer skewering aimed at some of Hollywood's most offensive practices, including phoniness and those awful trailers."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Betty Jo Tucker 4/5 "an unapologetically brazen celluloid slur -- that is, of course, if you get what it's going for"   Filmcritic.com   Bill Gibron 7/10 "A very funny Hollywood story with a gay character who doesn't mince or terrify the straight characters and comes out without being punished. If only this weren't a satire."   AfterElton.com   Brian Juergens A- "A triumph on nearly every level of execution and intent...it's a pleasure to report that Tropic Thunder is a work of pure hilarity and insanity throughout."   BrianOrndorf.com   Brian Orndorf "Say what you will about Apocalypse Now and Platoon, the two films that Tropic Thunder primarily plays off of, but they were not so "safe"."   PopMatters   Chris Barsanti B+ "A heady blend of outrageous Grand Guignol comic set pieces and fast-twitch dialogue, "Tropic Thunder" walks a fine line of dangerous satire that straddles gallows humor and bawdy pop-culture inflected slapstick."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey 5/10 "Tropic Thunder tells you that race and masculinity and class identity issues make men in this business mean and juvenile. And then it tells you again."   NPR   Cynthia Fuchs A "I laughed until I cried."   EDGE Boston   David Foucher 3/4 "...[Robert Downey Jr's] "full retard" speech is alone worth the price of a ticket..."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair C "Bad as both an action pic and as a comedy."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 2/4 "A smug comedy so blatantly pleased with itself that the finished product isn't nearly as much fun to watch as it probably was to make."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman 3/5 "Un excelente entretenimiento, realmente gracioso y divertido, que se permite tomarle el pelo a la misma industria de la que sale."   Uruguay Total   Enrique Buchichio A- "Hacks Hollywood to pieces more astutely, mercilessly, and hilariously than any satire in at least a decade."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 3.5/4 "Stiller has rediscovered the subversive humor from the best moments of his career and created a near-classic that is his funniest film since the remake of Meet the Parents."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress C "It never develops its clever ideas, it just repeats them until they're played out. By the end of the film there's nothing left."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov "... it attacks celebrity culture and the excesses of Hollywood filmmaking ... with a wink and slap on the back, celebrating that same culture as much as it ridicules it."   DVD Review   Felix Gonzalez Jr. 3/4 "Thunder is ambitiously blunt and blasphemous in its bombastic barbs of treasured absurdity...[a] calculated comedy drenched in volumes of manufactured viciousness and succulent screwball vibrancy."   Movie Eye   Frank Ochieng C "Tropic Thunder makes a lot of noise, but fails to produce the promised gales of laughter."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek "An action comedy with unappealing characters and a fast pace that can't cover up its cynicism."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 3/4 "The film isn't perfect, but in an environment where things like The Love Guru and Step Brothers pass for worthwhile entertainment, Tropic Thunder puts a lot of comedy pretenders to shame."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 4/5 "Tropic Thunder wants to make big money mocking big-money movie making, and the only thing that detracts from the fun and comedy is how, even while you're watching it, you can't help but notice the order those priorities come in."   Cinematical   James Rocchi 3.5/4 "The laughs fly as fast and furious as enemy fire."   Palo Alto Weekly   Jeanne Aufmuth 2/4 "Ben Stiller used to be unafraid of pointed mockery, but nowadays he pulls his punches."   Slant Magazine   Jeremiah Kipp 6/10 "...when you throw enough gags at an audience, some of them are bound to work."   DVDTown.com   John J. Puccio 3/4 "While the blogs and talking heads seem to be wrong-headedly preoccupied with issues of semantics and race, what I found to be the most authentically disturbing is Tropic Thunder's use of war and soldiering as basis for levity."   Bangitout.com   Jordan Hiller 4/5 "All sociopolitical malarkey aside, it's a delicious metafictional take on war action movies, hero worship, and Hollywood banality, filled with bigger-than-life egos struggling with bigger-than-life problems."   Cinerina   Karina Montgomery A- "At its heart, Tropic Thunder is a parody of its own industry and nothing more. If you don't get the joke, you don't deserve to laugh."   Film School Rejects   Kevin Carr 3/4 "Even between the great gags, the movie kept me involved because, against all odds, it actually almost works as a straight war film."   Montreal Film Journal   Kevin N. Laforest A- "Cowriter/director Ben Stiller's long gestating project arrives on screen in a blaze of comic glory...the film's secret weapon is Tom Cruise"   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford "[I]nventively clever in its sendup of the self-involvement of pretty much anyone who's anyone in Hollywood... aggressive[ly] outrageous..."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 3.5/4 "If you read Entertainment Weekly from cover to cover, devour the bonus features on your DVDs, and watch the E! network religiously, then Tropic Thunder is a comedy custom made for you."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan B+ "A movie about a fake movie has the truest laughs of the summer."   Beliefnet   Nell Minow C "Big budget, big stars, big concept -- surprisingly little payoff."   Lessons of Darkness   Nick Schager 3.5/5 "Stiller and company aren't exposing anything about the industry most of us didn't already know, he's just saying it really loudly and spraying blood everywhere while he does."   Film Threat   Pete Vonder Haar 4/5 "It sounds like a potentially unpalatable mix of dumb-dumb comedy and backstage in-jokes but one of the impressive things about the film is how it takes such a theoretically dodgy concept and makes it work despite all of the potential hiccups."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 2.5/5 "This comedy about movie-making that allows the cast to play knowingly with their careers and public personae. But the film feels only half as funny as it should be, falling back too often on big action sequences that are too ridiculous to work on any leve"   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 2.5/5 "Feels only half as funny as it should be, falling back too often on big action sequences that are too ridiculous to work on any level."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 3/5 "Downey imbues the movie with whatever soul (though I use that word cautiously in this context) and commitment it has."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves B+ "Hell, it may even save Tom Cruise's career. Let's see Batman do that."   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux C+ "A pretty good basic idea, but it falls a little short in execution."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten "Tropic Thunder is ridiculous and deeply enjoyable, but it also flashes a mercilessly polished mirror at the "prestige" products that the movie business so glibly feeds us in order to reflect glory back on itself."   Salon.com   Stephanie Zacharek 8/10 "Ben Stiller's audacious spoof of war movies is - without doubt - the summer's funniest comedy, sending up Hollywood egos."   SSG Syndicate   Susan Granger 9/10 "One of the nastiest American comedies in what feels like decades, taking a well-trod subject - how movies are made - and attacking with a savage gusto that calls to mind Sunset Blvd. and The Player ."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton 3/4 "This Hollywood industry parody features solid performances from Robert Downey Jr, Jay Baruchel and Tom Cruise and a generally funny execution."   Oscar Guy   Wesley Lovell "Click here to see review"   Wolf Entertainment Guide   William Wolf 3/5 Read review   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick  (1 - 46) of 46 OFCS Rating: 78% Fresh Page   1